Improvement in refrigerators



P. I. KROMER.

REFRIGERATOR. 1 5 Patenjgd Sept. 5,1876.

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PHILIPP J. KBOMER, OF OOLUMBUS, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN REFRIGERATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N o. lSl,950, dated September 5, 1876; application filed J une 22, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, P. J. KROMER, of O0- lumbus, State of Ohio, have invented an Ice- Box for Cooling Liquids, of which the following is a specification v The object of my invention is to keep liquids in bottles, such as are usually sold at restaurants, at a low temperature, and to protect the ice used for that purpose against the in fluence of the atmosphere by surrounding it with a non-conductor, as shown in the accompanying drawing.

This invention consists in the construction and novel arrangement of the removable or detachable flanged cases, being, respectively, theouter case, a middle case, between which and the outer case a non-conducting material may be placed, and an interior case, having a centrally-arranged ice-pocket and surrounding the same cylindrical pockets for the reception of bottles, said pockets extending downward into the cavity of the middle or drip-case, which is supported by its flange on the outer case, and, in turn, supports the inner case, substantially as hereinafter shown and described.

In the drawing, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of said ice-box; and Fig. 2 a cross-section.

a is a box made of copper, tin, or any suitable sheet metal; this box is open at the top. I) is another box of the same material, but smaller in size, leaving, when inserted into box a, a space, h, of several inches between the sides and bottoms of the two boxes, for the reception of charcoal or some other nonconducting substance. Box I), when inserted into box a, is resting on the top edge or flange of the latter by means of a flange on top part of box 12. c is a plate of the same material, resting on the top flange of box b. To this plate are secured a convenient number of tubes, f, of the same material, open on top, but closed on bottom. These tubes are the receptacles for the bottles containing the liquids. Plate 0 also carries a box, d, for the reception of ice, wherein ice in lumps may be used; or, in places where broken ice or shaved ice is needed, this may be deposited therein, and act as cooler. Box d is, near its bottom, provided with small holes 0 a, through which the water from the molten ice may find its way into box b. All tubes f and box at are inside of box I) when the apparatus is put together. g is a small tube secured to the bottom of box 12; it runs up in box I) to a height extending several inches above the bottom of f, the receptacles for the bottles. The other end of tube g extends through the bottom of box I), spaceh, and also through the bottom of box a; it will carry away the water, which is collected in box I), from the molten icc when itreaches that height, leaving the cooler portion of said ice-water in box b.

It will be evident that the ice-water, which runs through holes 6 6 out of box d into box I; and surrounds tubes f, in which the bottles are deposited, will be kept at a low temperature on account of the non-conducting substance deposited in space It surrounding it,

which will have a great saving of ice as resuit; and that also the bottles during this cooling-elf process will remain perfectly clean and dry on the outside, because the ice-water will have no access into said receptacles for bottles. It will also be evident that the whole apparatus, being easily taken apart, can be cleaned with the greatest comfort.

I claim as my inventionl. The bottle-refrigerator herein described, consisting of the outer flanged case a, the middle or drip-case I), having a marginal flange resting on the flange of the outer case, and the central depending inner case 0, having the central depending perforated pocket at, and the surrounding cylindrical pockets f, said inner and middle cases being detachable from each other, substantially as specified.

2. In combination with the outer casing a, a spaced inner casing, b, and a removable lid, g, provided with a perforated ice-box, d, and depending pockets f, the drain-pipe g extending upward through casings a b above the bottoms of the pockets, substantially as specitied.

3. The lid or cover 0, provided with a central ice-box, d, and surrounding pockets f, in combination with the non-conducting casing a, having drip-pipe g extending upward beyond the base of the said pockets, substantially as specified.

PHIL. J. KBOMER.

Witnesses G. J. MARRIOTT, ADAM LINKHAUPT. 

